El Paso Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

• University of Texas at El Paso

  Bhutan and Tibet inspired the campus silhouette in front of you: the University of Texas at El Paso, founded in 1913 as the State School of Mines and Metallurgy. It became reality after SB 183 was signed on April 16, 1913, and the school opened on September 28, 1914, with just 27 students.

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  Sun Bowl Stadium

  September 21, 1963 was opening day here at the Sun Bowl, the outdoor football stadium on the campus of the University of Texas at El Paso. This is home to the UTEP Miners of the Mountain West Conference and hosts the late-December college football bowl game, the Sun Bowl.

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  El Paso High School

  Feel the mountainside beneath El Paso High School, the 'Lady on the Hill' overlooking the city and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico across the boundary. Perched on a mountainside at the foot of the Franklin Mountains, this is the Lady on the Hill, a building that stands out prominently on the horizon and commands a view of the central city and its boundary with Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

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  Don Haskins Center

  Don Haskins Center, the arena at the heart of El Paso, fills the view in front of you. Built in 1977 as the Special Events Center to replace Memorial Gym, this is the home of UTEP Miners men's and women's basketball and a venue that has been renamed in honor of UTEP’s Hall of Fame coach Don Haskins in 1998.

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  Hotel Paso del Norte

  Less than a mile north of the international border with Mexico, Hotel Paso del Norte and its 351 rooms rise in front of you. From this spot you can sense why a wealthy El Paso businessman, Zack T. White, poured resources into its construction: after watching a fire destroy another hotel, White and architect Henry Charles Trost even traveled to San Francisco to learn how some buildings had survived the 1906 earthquake and fire.

All 29 stops

• El Paso PDN Port of Entry (El Paso)

  Your gateway north crosses the United States–Mexico border, tying El Paso, Texas to Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.

• El Paso Street (El Paso)

  Notice how El Paso Street, right here in El Paso, Texas, pulls your feet toward the bridge into Mexico.

• Paso del Norte International Bridge (El Paso)

  Your route crosses the Rio Grande here, on the international bridge linking El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.

• San Jacinto Plaza (Downtown El Paso)

  Alligators once lived here in San Jacinto Plaza, the historic park at the corner of Oregon and Mills in the heart of Downtown El Paso…

• Plaza Theatre (Pioneer Plaza)

  Picture a produce warehouse where this 1930 theater now rises, still hosting Broadway shows and film festivals.

• La Nube (Downtown El Paso)

  Your children's museum, La Nube, means 'The Cloud' in Spanish and opened here in 2024 after years of delays.

• El Paso Museum of Art (Downtown El Paso)

  Founded in 1959, the El Paso Museum of Art faces you right here in downtown El Paso.

• El Paso Museum of History (Downtown El Paso)

  Picture four hundred years of border life packed into this downtown museum's sixteen thousand feet of galleries.

• International Museum of Art (El Paso)

  Henry C. Trost designed this 1908 residence for William Ward Turney, and today it houses the International Museum of Art in El Paso.

• White House Department Store and Hotel McCoy (El Paso)

  Felix Brunschwig co-founded the store in 1900, and this is its home: the White House Department Store and Hotel McCoy in El Paso, Texas.

• Popular Department Store (El Paso)

  Look up at this 1917 Chicago School façade, built for The Popular department store in El Paso, Texas.

• Toltec Club (Downtown El Paso)

  Toltec meant man of knowledge, and the Toltec Club, also called the Toltec Building, faces you in downtown El Paso.

• Abdou Building (El Paso)

  Look up at seven stories of masonry raised in 1910 for the Rio Grande Valley Bank in El Paso, Texas.

• Anson Mills Building (Downtown El Paso)

  Anson Mills hired Henry C. Trost to build the concrete skyscraper facing you at 303 North Oregon Street.

• Richard Caples Building (El Paso)

  Picture Madero's revolutionary headquarters inside this seven-story building in El Paso, Texas.

• Roberts-Banner Building (El Paso)

  Concrete raised the Roberts-Banner Building five stories in 1910, a declared historic building in El Paso, Texas.

• O. T. Bassett Tower (Downtown El Paso)

  Art Deco setbacks climb the O. T. Bassett Tower at 303 Texas Avenue in Downtown El Paso, right in front of you.

• Plaza Hotel (El Paso)

  Conrad Hilton lived for years in the tower in front of you, the Plaza Hotel at 106 Mills Avenue, a landmark skyscraper over downtown El…

• Hotel Paso del Norte (El Paso)

  Less than a mile north of the international border with Mexico, Hotel Paso del Norte and its 351 rooms rise in front of you.

• Old Bnai Zion Synagogue (El Paso)

  Sunset Palace is the later name for the Old Bnai Zion Synagogue at 906 North El Paso Street, the building facing you.

• Magoffin Homestead (Magoffin Historic District)

  Joseph Magoffin built the adobe home in front of you in 1875, and it remains the heart of the Magoffin Historic District.

• Henry C. Trost House (El Paso)

  Architect Henry C. Trost drew the plans for the house facing you and lived in it himself, in El Paso, Texas.

• El Paso High School (West-Central El Paso)

  Feel the mountainside beneath El Paso High School, the 'Lady on the Hill' overlooking the city and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico across the boundary.

• University of Texas at El Paso (El Paso)

  Bhutan and Tibet inspired the campus silhouette in front of you: the University of Texas at El Paso, founded in 1913 as the State School…

• Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens (University of Texas at El Paso)

  El Paso's oldest museum, the Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens, sits on the UTEP campus in front of you.

• Sun Bowl Stadium (University of Texas at El Paso)

  September 21, 1963 was opening day here at the Sun Bowl, the outdoor football stadium on the campus of the University of Texas at El…

• Don Haskins Center (El Paso)

  Don Haskins Center, the arena at the heart of El Paso, fills the view in front of you.

• Old Fort Bliss (El Paso)

  Soldiers of the 1850s once bunked in the pair of two-story adobe buildings in front of you: Old Fort Bliss, also called Camp Bliss, in…

• Stanton Street Bridge (El Paso)

  Locals call it the Stanton Street Bridge, but the span ahead of you is officially the Good Neighbor International Bridge.

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